Many view parental alienation syndrome as a harmful and pseudoscientific concept. Why does an academic debate persist?

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In places like Indonesia, plastic refuse is often burned in unregulated low-tech furnaces that pose grave health risks.

The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. Now it's gone dark.

Understanding the genetics of circulating viruses will determine if the U.S. loses measles elimination status this year.

Research suggests that rocket exhaust and debris could be threatening the ozone layer, though many uncertainties persist.

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President Trump’s sweeping nuclear energy and weapons agenda has prompted revisions of longstanding radiation standards.

An executive order upended an NIH policy requiring researchers to account for both sexes in preclinical animal studies.

On a mild day in mid-November, among a clutch of oaks and sycamores, more than a dozen people encircled a small fire. Some lay splayed on the ground or on blankets, others perched on camp stools. Many ...